Ever since I discovered this channel, I haven't been able to get enough of it. Keep up the good work, because you sir, are truly amazing at being snarky!
In that scene where Reagan is on the balcony, Linda Blair _actually_ did that! The director thought there was no way to "fake" it, and had her stand up there; like, 100ft-300ft off the ground.
OMG, are you serious?! Could you imagine what the consequences would have been, had she fallen to her death? First of all, thank God she didn't, but if she had, people would be convinced that she was cursed for starring as Regan. And that would be on top of the fact that many believe 'The Exorcist' is... how do I put it... spiritually compromised.
@@ro4eva Yeah, which is pretty sad because the reality of it was the dude who wanted to make a movie about a child being tortured by the devil turned out to be.... kind of a piece of shit(WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT?!)
The script was great, the cast was excellent, the film was creepy, without copying the original, Brad Dourif is brilliant as ever and the possessed Father Karras scared the shit out of me, when I was a kid... hell, it even had a Samuel Jackson, playing piano in heaven! What more would you want out of life? Under-rated to no end... ... this turd however, was one of the first horror-films, that I turned off, halfway through, and started doing something else... or perhaps put on another movie. Can't quite remember. Which is a shame, because it had a nice cast: Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Linda Blair's T&A... for the love of Pazuzu, it even had a score by Ennio Morricone! The literal case of a pearl-necklace being put around a sow's neck, before throwing the pearls down a toilet... what went through the heads of everybody involved, will forever remain a mystery. Or perhaps it was some kind of demonic possession....
I saw this as kid on TV -- I was around 13 (give or take a couple of years -- it was a long time ago: I am in my 50's). I remember it made very little sense to me, and in my recollection I had always attributed it to me being too young to understand its complex plot. And now I see your review, and how accurate my memory was: the movie made no sense because it had none to begin with! 😆
@@R-Lee- as I sad, I was a kid --- I was about eleven or twelve years old, so it was many, many decades ago. Cable was expensive and not very common, so it was over the air TV. I recall the movie being very long, so the editing must have been fairly light, and probably they just removed some small bits; but the story just didn't make much sense to me, the plot just seemed to me overly complicated. Mark's review is uncanny in how similar it is to what I remember.
Poor John Boorman, poor Ennio Morricone, poor Richard Burton.... such huge legends and they must have participated in such a botch. And also poor James Earl Jones, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow and Ned Beatty.
Yeah, Boorman is the reason this movie is the non-horror mess that it is. He hated horror films and had no desire to make one, yet he took the job. Then he promptly revamped the entire project, tossing most of the horror elements out and turning it into this trippy, incomprehensible picture. He deserves no pity whatsoever, and most of the blame (or credit, if you happen to love bad movies).
Oh yeah! Well my...well, nevermind, my fam didn't quite have the same connections. Forgive the low hanging fruit of a joke,... Ancestors aided in the woredrobe department somehow. 🤷🏿♂️ The loom orchard is plentiful? (Isn't it great the lengths we'll go to be notable? No offense if whatever is true, but, this is how we approach life. Wild.)
I love this guys nonchalant voice as he comically points out several inconsistencies (comical inconsistencies mind you!) about the movie.Such as the poor poor Cabbie who was probably crush or died of a heart attack while the car was being shaken around.Haha!!
And in today's rather charged political climate the Leftists/Communists I am sure would claim "White people do not give a crap about their black cab drivers!". That would be a hilarious headline these days.
People complain that Hollywood today only invests in sequels and remakes, and yes they do it for money, but you have to remember there was an era in Hollywood where they made sequels purely for money with absolutely no effort to make a movie actually worth watching. For a very long time, The Godfather Part II and Aliens were the only sequels EVER that you could argue were better than the original. Sequels have definitely improved in the past decade or so.
Very understated and spot-on funny. By far, the best "bad movie" sarcasm offerings on RUclips, today. One of the best features (other than off-the-wall funny dialog) is the sad, "beaten down" countenance offered by the "host" of our journey into "hell". Well done, to say the least.
You gotta be out of your mind. They should've never, ever made any sequels to The Exorcist. Only small-minded teenagers would find those amusing. They are SHIT.
I find part 3 too slow, just so much exposition, every scene is two people talking for almost the whole film. I didn't find it worked as a murder mystery either.
The empty spots on the balcony actually gave me nightmares as a child. I don't even remember seeing the movie, I probably didn't, but I must have stumbled on the trailer because that image crept into brain and I immediately recognised it when I saw it years later. Oddly enough, of the entire Exorcist franchise, it was the one thing that did scare me. A hell lot, even. Then again, I was raised Catholic schools, in Europe, which meant very old churches and demon-related talk was actually per usual for me as a small kid and perhaps against all odds did not even scare me. Now falling to my death from a gap in the balcony railing did scareme.
Burton was in a few horrible films, but I would happily listen to that guy read the phonebook - he's got one of the best voices in acting. I don't mean that in some creepy way!
@@thedarkness4052 True. It wasn't even supposed to be called Exorcist III, nor was there supposed to be an exorcism in it. As you probably know, it's based on a book by William Peter Blatty called Legion, and he wanted the film called the same thing. For some reason, the producers thought the Exorcist IP still had value so they made him call it Exorcist III: Legion, before dropping Legion altogether. But once they'd changed the name, they watched his rough cut and were horrified that a film called Exorcist III had no exorcism in it, so they made Blatty do all the stuff with Nicol Williamson's character, which is okay in and of itself, but tonally divorced from the rest of the film. Honestly, with all the interference, the fact that film didn't disappear is a testament to just how good it is. And it also has the greatest jump scare in history.
The Exorcist holds it's value even today. Not only the horror aspect, but the incredible acting. Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow do an amazing job, especially the character of father Karras by Miller. He is one of my favorite characters of all time.
LMFAO at how you do these bad reviews. it's so blaze and sarcastic, it's comedy gold. that Darth Vader voice over was hilarious, and the planet earth with wailing reference was so funny and i loved how fixated you were on the dead cab driver. i just subscribed and can't wait to go through the bad review playlist. :D
I love how a cab crashes through a front gate, a fire starts and burns someone to death, and a townhouse collapses, and no one in this densely populated neighborhood seems to notice. If it happened in my neighborhood, there would be a bunch of people outside trying to figure out what is going on.
The main problem is the P13 trend to attract teens in theaters. And add to that the fact that every (non scary)creepy pasta circulating on medias are the main theme and voila! You have the least scary horror films in existence. I have nothing against movies that are aimed at a younger audience, but you need more to scare hardcore horror fans and very often the trailers for these things are very misleading for the kind of audience it's targeted at.
@@jjwp-ql5rv It has a lot of things hiding under the surface in that film. Someone on RUclips has done a video about the film hints at Regan having been sexually abused, without making it blatantly obvious. So the Exorcist is as much about the harm done to her by people. The film critic Mark Kermode rates it as one of his best films. While I don't entirely agree, I respect Kermode's opinion in other areas (unlike most critics) so he must see something in it.
He definitely deserves more subs. He's one of the few that hasn't posted click-bait, nor does he have those obnoxious 'Raid: Shadow Legends' ads inserted into his vids. Edit: Nor does he ask every video for people to subscribe and vote. He's humble about it.
@@shugaroony I think so. Other horrific films I can think of with half decent casts include Caligula (which sunk many careers, or at least submerged Malcolm McDowell's for a while), the Devil within Her, 1941 by Spielberg... I guess I should probably give an honourable mention to Jan Michael Vincent, because while he was never that good of an actor, I loved Airwolf as a boy and he appeared in a string of bad films.
The British tax code at that time left iconic actors buried under taxes because they were financially on the line between middle class and wealthy. If they wanted even a semi-comfortable middle class lifestyle, they would have to take whatever decent-paying crap came their way. That's how Alec Guinness was roped into Star Wars and Laurence Olivier ended up in a Moonie cult film. Guinness was actually grateful for doing Star Wars because the royalties meant he wouldn't have to do any more films he didn't like.
@@newguy90 A lot of these people just went to live overseas. Connery ended up in Spain, a lot of others went to live in the Irish Republic for similar reasons.
I've been watching horror movies since I was 9, and fifteen yars later, The Exorcist is one of the very few movies that still terrifies the shit out of me. The sequel though... it makes me laugh.
Forgive me for my cinematic heresy, but...I actually LIKE Exorcist II The Heretic. It is wacky, often makes no sense, and at times it IS laughable. Yet, I found it to be enjoyable.
Ironically the fact that Pazuzu exists (no really, look it up) makes this even funnier. They took a demon from actual mythology, made him terrifying, and then slowly diminished his supposed effectiveness by making the sequels crappier.
I was a teen when this came out. I just remember Linda Blair was cute and how liberating it must be to walk around in see through nightgowns ll day in public.
So many times people think they need to add to what is already a masterpiece. I don't get that. You can't just force creativity. It comes on spontaneously, yet all too often we try to force it. Ya can't force a flower to grow, you can't force yourself to go to sleep, and you can't force creativity. This reminds me, why in the fuck are they making a fourth Toy Story?
I`ve been in the highrise glass business for almost 40 years. Sure back in the 70`s we`d install railings on skyscrapers with portions missing. That way kids, pets, the old or drunk would plummet to sidewalk below. Then, to protect people on the sidewalk, we'd sell the building owner sturdy glass canopies over the storefronts at street level. Of course party-poopers made us stop leaving out portions of the railings on highrises, but we still, for fun, leave out the welds and bolts on one panel of every railing. If you lean too hard it'll snap off and you'll plummet to the sidewalk... sorry, sturdy glass canopy below. "Hey! This railing is unsafe!" "Then don't lean on it. Didn't you read your railing warranty?"
In all fairness, if people are going to call Bruce sick over this, then maybe they should realize she was literally dressed up in a nightie in one scene and seducing a grown man. They were doing their darnedest to make her "hot" for this movie.
OMG i forgot the psychiatrist in this was the evil Nurse Ratchet from 'Cuckoo's Nest'! How the great John Boorman managed to make such a turkey is incredible to me. 'Point Blank' is a stone classic, and 'Excalibur' though it is undeniably odd, has a firm grip on its material and possesses real magic.
I saw this in a double bill with the original Exorcist film. My girlfriend spent most of the first film covering her eyes in fear and most of this film covering her mouth because she was laughing so much.
I am really glad this review exists. There are times I watch a movie, not like it, but feel like the world will hate me because I find fault with it. Exorcist 2 was one of those. I didn't understand the movie. It wasn't scary at all. It was just confusing. It was like some first year art students were asked to make their own version of the Exorcist. When I hear Mark talk about these movies I feel like I'm not alone anymore.
I mean, it's a universally disliked film, and many fans of the original hate the sequel. Even the third film gets more love (and rightly so) than this rubbish. So there never was any need to think you were alone with this. I was actually angry when I watched this film the first time, because it felt so insulting to the original Exorcist.
I can predict the future..done it many times and I will say this..you will be the ultimate movie producer/director in 10 years..you see thru all the bullshit and will make the best movie of 2030...buckle up and we will be looking for mistakes yet there will be none.
I saw it when I was 11 (exorcist) and I lost my shit. When she started floating and furniture started moving I was done! By the time I saw part 2 I was in my teens and I was jaded by horror movies. So yeah I showed no interest. Especially after all the interviews I read and videos I watched.
My dad saw the exorcist when it first came out and they almost kicked him out of the theater because he was laughing so hard. It is not even close to scary unless you have satanophobia or are easily scared in general.
This movie makes total sense. You need to calm down with the medicine my fishtank doctor gave me...hold on, doctor, the RUclips's asking me to explain the movie I..hang on...
BRING BACK PRACTICAL EFFECTS!!!!!!!!!!! Also, have you noticed that the 80s and 90s are notorious for having TERRIBLE horror movie sequels. Like I know we have bad sequels now, but think about how many horror movies have had a ton of sequels that are largely considered bad. Jaws, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, Alien.
most of these franchises have sequels better than the original and did you quote Alien as having a bad sequel. I hope they reversed that lobotomy in the past 4 years.
I'm so old, I saw this in the theatre as a young person. Yup saw Exorcist in the theatre too. I was freaked out by the Exorcist, as was everyone in the theatre, and kind of like Ex. 2. BUT I LOVE the way Mark uses the James Earl Jones thing to go full Darth Vader, Way cool !!!
The exorcist is most scariest and terror inducing movie still to this day. It is no horror movie at all. It's a well written and interpreted story of unstoppable fear. Fear that shows itself to your face and terror that seeps into your imagination.
I actually really like the Father Marrin Africa exorcism flashback scenes in this. Its got this weird, orange dreamlike vibe that works. It’s about the only part of the sequel that should’ve stayed cannon.
9:02 It's always funny to see street scenes in movies with a famous actor/actress and they did not use a closed set. Instead of all the people going about their regular business in the movie like they should you have a bunch of people staring at this "character" thinking, "Is that Linda Blair?"
The Heretic is not the worst movie sequel of all time. Yes its bad.In fact in terms of screenplay,its pretty much appalling. The trouble is that Mr Kermode rates the Exorcist as his all time favourite movie of all time. So I can quite understand his hatred of its first official sequel. So firstly I would like to point out why people dislike Exorcist II: The Heretic so much. 1)The screenplay is terrible.It really doesn't hold water. We are supposed to believe that Regan still has that demon Pazuzu trapped and suppressed inside her and the only way to uncover the truth is to use a hypnosis strobing machine so that another person can travel in to her subconscious and witness the events of father Merrins death in the first movie. Plus we find out the Regan can cure the sick ,see the future and draw scary pictures depicting forthcoming events that only father Lamont can decipher. 2)The acting.. Well its pretty much hilarious. Richard Burton made this movie when he was fighting his Alcohol addiction. Half the time, he seems to be reading all his lines off cue cards. This makes his performance both mesmerising and infuriating. Linda Blair fairs little better. She really hasn't got much to do and Like Burton she is saddled with terrible dialogue that keeps her character two dimensional though the entire film. This also applies to Louise Fletcher who had just won a deserved Oscar for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. In this movies she is forced to say the the most inane lines, with which she speaks with total indifference. Kitty Winn, James Earl Jones and Max Von Sydow fair only slightly better with Ned DELIVERANCE Beaty having a great cameo as the Pilot. And finally 3)John Boorman. A great director who seems totally out of his depth with this material.The trouble is that Boorman has always been a straight story teller but the film storyline is so all over the place that no director could rain it in. The original worked because it presented its story in the most realistic way possible. Its almost scientific in its presentation of good verses evil leaving its meaning up to its audience. Boormans film is overly complex and as a result it becomes slightly pretentious. So you may ask yourself, what is right with Exorcist II: The Heretic and why did I give it a 6 stars when most people have given it one or even none. Well. I think its is one of the most visually stunning movies ever made. I personally watch it for the visuals alone. Strangely Exorcist II: The Heretic is as film of many different palates and styles and although some say this is a weakness in my humble opinion it is one of its strengths. Also the films horror elements have a strange and eerie beauty to them. from the opening where the possessed women burns to death to the aerial demon riding the wind sequence with reminds me of those cinema virtual roller coasters. There are also tremendous visuals that utilise models, such as the climb to the cliff top Temple. Plus the African Locust attack. All these sequences have a dream like quality to them that is as good visually as anything we can do to day with computer graphics. I should also mention Ennio Morricones excellent score. Although it seems out of place in some sequences it is non the less powerful and works well with some of the visuals. To sum up. As I have said before Exorcist II: The Heretic is not a good movie. But its isn't no where near as bad as certain critics would have you believe. Over the past 10 years I have seen many movies that I would class as a lot worse than Exorcist II: The Heretic. I believe you should try watching Exorcist II: The Heretic. Or if you have already seen it and hated it. Try watching it again it may grow on you. It did on me. To me Exorcist II: The Heretic is like a Wedding video where someone has filmed you dancing like you dad or doing Karaoke. You know you shouldn't watch it, but some how you can't help yourself. Plus secretly you quite like it.
Pazuzu is the king of the demons of the wind. Mortal enemy of the evil Lamashtu and other evil entities. So much, that he was a protector of the humans against plagues and misfortunes. And, specially, he was a protector of the mothers in childbirth. So yeah, they choose for this movie the only f*cking good demon to be the main antagonist.
I am impressed you reviewed the original full house of crap that was Eexorcist 2 Heretic. I reviewed it for my college paper when the wtf movie came out. I pointed out that at the end when Burton and Linda Blair walk off, they are walking towards a drop of about a hundred feet or more, onto a gas station, my having visited the famous site. The stairs down which Jason Miller's character fell in the original film are to the left of the screen, the house to the right; my friends and I parked down in the parking lot below, and climbed the stairs to the house. You didn't show what my review included: Louis Fletcher after the car wreck, running about in circles with barbed wire or such in her side, calling for help in the silent street with all the urgency of calling a puppy to come indoors. Great review! It was so panfuil to watch when I saw it in the theater (apart from Linda as Sexy Sultry Demon Regan).
There is one positive about this movie: this review. Hilarious!
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John Boorman going from directing the excellent Deliverance to directing Exorcist II: proof how far a director can fall (although he did rebound in '81 with Excalibur and again in '85 with the underrated The Emerald Forest). Also, William Friedkin could only watch the first half hour of this. Can't believe he even made it THAT far.
Peter Gorman I watched that one in spite of my husband’s warnings about how awful it is... the song in the movie is awful... and I am pretty sure it contributed to my irrational fear of children...
This needed a heavy rewrite. The script was shit. It reeks of too many people with different ideas trying to cram them all in. Needed to be more simple. I would have written a story where another kid, this time a teenager, is being possessed and the church feels like it might be the same demon so send the priest to interview Regan in the psychiatric hospital about her memories to find out if it's the same or a different one. In the finale, which would be similar to the ending of this(because the movie at least gets interesting in the finale), the Demon which turns out to be the more powerful demon Baal attempts to possess Reagan and seduce Burton's character. They succeed defeating the demon together, but Reagan dies at the end of the battle. I would have used that famous German case(which also inspired Emily Rose) where the girl died during the exorcism as the inspiration for the second film.
@Carol Bogdanowitz What? They're remaking it? Aww man.. why can't they just leave well enough alone. They're running out of ideas so they have to recycle movies. 😭
I like this movie. It's stupid and silly but taken at that value, it can be enjoyable. Would love to hear your thoughts on The Neverending Story 2. 3 is an obvious answer, but 2 is pretty enjoyable IMO.
The main thing that was scary in "The Exorcist ll" was Louise Fletcher. It's like she has no idea or talent to play in anything else but psychotic or horror films! The best thing in the movie was, of course, Linda Blair!
Ever since I discovered this channel, I haven't been able to get enough of it.
Keep up the good work, because you sir, are truly amazing at being snarky!
Thank you very much! It's taken me years to sharpen my snarky skills
I concur!Bad movies crack me up!Your commentary makes me laugh!don't stop,please!
***** Once you reach this level, there is no going back.You then notice everything. I'm also in it, I can't relax anymore and just watch the shit :)
this is an incredible channel.I'm suprised he doesn't have at least 1 mil. subs yet
+Soy Jizz wow, your profile picture have something.....
"You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor. Take her away!" 😂😂😂
Darth Vader would kick pazuzus ASS
What's even better is how the clip he used matched up very well! 😂
I laughed so hard when that happened
Her mouth movements were almost in sync with the words 😂.
All too easy
In that scene where Reagan is on the balcony, Linda Blair _actually_ did that! The director thought there was no way to "fake" it, and had her stand up there; like, 100ft-300ft off the ground.
Linda Blair is a little crazy anyway.
OMG, are you serious?! Could you imagine what the consequences would have been, had she fallen to her death? First of all, thank God she didn't, but if she had, people would be convinced that she was cursed for starring as Regan. And that would be on top of the fact that many believe 'The Exorcist' is... how do I put it... spiritually compromised.
I would've quit right then and there. Who the fuck does that for a shot?!
@@ro4eva Yeah, which is pretty sad because the reality of it was the dude who wanted to make a movie about a child being tortured by the devil turned out to be.... kind of a piece of shit(WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT?!)
I wondered why that “effect” (as I thought it was) looked so convincing for something from 1977. Now we know.
So Darth Vader, Nurse Ratchet and Cleopatra's husband walk into a bar...
And they all get casted in the worst movie of their careers
And the snake king from Conan the barbarian. Didn’t Vader know the snake king? The dark side is everywhere!
Exorcist 3, on the other hand, is fucking awesome (and pretends 2 never happened).
Derek Smallshorts completely agree. Brilliant film.
Derek Smallshorts its very underrated
I still like Exorcist II though, @@arizonaFIREent. At least the music score is pretty good.
A lost classic. Always gonna be one of my favorite movies. Especially after reading the book
The script was great, the cast was excellent, the film was creepy, without copying the original, Brad Dourif is brilliant as ever and the possessed Father Karras scared the shit out of me, when I was a kid... hell, it even had a Samuel Jackson, playing piano in heaven! What more would you want out of life? Under-rated to no end...
... this turd however, was one of the first horror-films, that I turned off, halfway through, and started doing something else... or perhaps put on another movie. Can't quite remember. Which is a shame, because it had a nice cast: Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Linda Blair's T&A... for the love of Pazuzu, it even had a score by Ennio Morricone! The literal case of a pearl-necklace being put around a sow's neck, before throwing the pearls down a toilet... what went through the heads of everybody involved, will forever remain a mystery. Or perhaps it was some kind of demonic possession....
Only reason I liked this bullshit movie was because of Linda Blair. I had a major crush on her back then.
Super RAPE
I saw this as kid on TV -- I was around 13 (give or take a couple of years -- it was a long time ago: I am in my 50's). I remember it made very little sense to me, and in my recollection I had always attributed it to me being too young to understand its complex plot. And now I see your review, and how accurate my memory was: the movie made no sense because it had none to begin with! 😆
On TV wouldn't it have been completely edited, or do you mean HBO?
@@R-Lee- as I sad, I was a kid --- I was about eleven or twelve years old, so it was many, many decades ago. Cable was expensive and not very common, so it was over the air TV. I recall the movie being very long, so the editing must have been fairly light, and probably they just removed some small bits; but the story just didn't make much sense to me, the plot just seemed to me overly complicated. Mark's review is uncanny in how similar it is to what I remember.
Poor John Boorman, poor Ennio Morricone, poor Richard Burton.... such huge legends and they must have participated in such a botch. And also poor James Earl Jones, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow and Ned Beatty.
+subraxas yeah she had just won an Oscar what the FUCK was she thinking?!!!
Don't pity Boorman, he literally butchered the script they originally had.
@@trustno173 Boorman also did Zardoz. Which is horrifically schlocky, campy and should appear on this channel. I actually like it though!
subraxas - James Earl Jones' performance, and Witch Doctor character, was the only redeeming part of this hot mess of ungodly proportions.
Yeah, Boorman is the reason this movie is the non-horror mess that it is. He hated horror films and had no desire to make one, yet he took the job. Then he promptly revamped the entire project, tossing most of the horror elements out and turning it into this trippy, incomprehensible picture. He deserves no pity whatsoever, and most of the blame (or credit, if you happen to love bad movies).
Fun Fact: my great uncle bred the locusts that were used in this movie :D
So, awful as it is, i always find it's pretty cool
LeaPrufrock that's pretty cool actually
Far out. Really.
The concept of wrangling creatures like insects for a film blows my mind. That must be a nightmare of a job, even for the well trained.
my aunt grew that field the bugs are eating!!!!
Oh yeah! Well my...well, nevermind, my fam didn't quite have the same connections. Forgive the low hanging fruit of a joke,... Ancestors aided in the woredrobe department somehow. 🤷🏿♂️ The loom orchard is plentiful?
(Isn't it great the lengths we'll go to be notable? No offense if whatever is true, but, this is how we approach life. Wild.)
The only scary thing about Exorcist 2 is that I had to watch this review twice because you re-uploaded... so I have to watch the Ex2 clips twice...
Now imagine how scary it was to sit through not just this movie, but all kinds of movies like this on a regular basis....that...that is my life
***** I envy that actually
***** I have to mention that Exorcist 2 is the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen of horror movies.
small internet. I watch this guy's videos too.
+Armoured Skeptic Hello!
I love this guys nonchalant voice as he comically points out several inconsistencies (comical inconsistencies mind you!) about the movie.Such as the poor poor Cabbie who was probably crush or died of a heart attack while the car was being shaken around.Haha!!
And in today's rather charged political climate the Leftists/Communists I am sure would claim "White people do not give a crap about their black cab drivers!". That would be a hilarious headline these days.
People complain that Hollywood today only invests in sequels and remakes, and yes they do it for money, but you have to remember there was an era in Hollywood where they made sequels purely for money with absolutely no effort to make a movie actually worth watching. For a very long time, The Godfather Part II and Aliens were the only sequels EVER that you could argue were better than the original. Sequels have definitely improved in the past decade or so.
And The Empire Strikes Back
Geoff Wheeler exactly
kolaxanthe late to the party but Spiderman 2 (Maguire) and Terminator 2
The Evil Dead II was also pretty good
I actually prefer Alien over Aliens, but both are good.
Very understated and spot-on funny. By far, the best "bad movie" sarcasm offerings on RUclips, today. One of the best features (other than off-the-wall funny dialog) is the sad, "beaten down" countenance offered by the "host" of our journey into "hell". Well done, to say the least.
Exorcist III is really underrated. Its the only good Exorcism sequel.
Brad Dourif's monologues in III were pretty great, but otherwise that movie suffered from it's own problems.
You gotta be out of your mind. They should've never, ever made any sequels to The Exorcist. Only small-minded teenagers would find those amusing. They are SHIT.
@@MrKmanthie OnLy SmaLL MiNdEd TeEnAgErS!! rabble rabble
I love part 3 and the beginning version of the prequel
I find part 3 too slow, just so much exposition, every scene is two people talking for almost the whole film. I didn't find it worked as a murder mystery either.
The empty spots on the balcony actually gave me nightmares as a child. I don't even remember seeing the movie, I probably didn't, but I must have stumbled on the trailer because that image crept into brain and I immediately recognised it when I saw it years later. Oddly enough, of the entire Exorcist franchise, it was the one thing that did scare me. A hell lot, even.
Then again, I was raised Catholic schools, in Europe, which meant very old churches and demon-related talk was actually per usual for me as a small kid and perhaps against all odds did not even scare me. Now falling to my death from a gap in the balcony railing did scareme.
Thank God this wasn't Richard Burton's last film ("1984")! And, also, thank God for "Exorcist 3", which is quite a good movie.
Agreed. It's a shame this piece of shit sullied the exorcist title. The Exorcist 3 should've been 2, it probably wouldn't have been so unappreciated.
Burton was in a few horrible films, but I would happily listen to that guy read the phonebook - he's got one of the best voices in acting. I don't mean that in some creepy way!
@@thedarkness4052 True. It wasn't even supposed to be called Exorcist III, nor was there supposed to be an exorcism in it. As you probably know, it's based on a book by William Peter Blatty called Legion, and he wanted the film called the same thing. For some reason, the producers thought the Exorcist IP still had value so they made him call it Exorcist III: Legion, before dropping Legion altogether. But once they'd changed the name, they watched his rough cut and were horrified that a film called Exorcist III had no exorcism in it, so they made Blatty do all the stuff with Nicol Williamson's character, which is okay in and of itself, but tonally divorced from the rest of the film. Honestly, with all the interference, the fact that film didn't disappear is a testament to just how good it is. And it also has the greatest jump scare in history.
"Repossessed" was the true sequel.
Thanks Leslie Nielson
Hilarious, one of my Neilson favs
Nielson is one of the all time greats
may be an even worse movie than this one!!
@@Bigger-Than-Jesus Jesus, your drunk, go back to your cave already and sleep it off.
This channel is a guilty pleasure of mine. Every day after work I watch a couple of these videos. Best thing ever. Thanks for this amazing channel.
The Exorcist holds it's value even today. Not only the horror aspect, but the incredible acting. Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow do an amazing job, especially the character of father Karras by Miller. He is one of my favorite characters of all time.
Yeah, today's "horror" movies are just gore and don't hold a candle to this.
LMFAO at how you do these bad reviews. it's so blaze and sarcastic, it's comedy gold. that Darth Vader voice over was hilarious, and the planet earth with wailing reference was so funny and i loved how fixated you were on the dead cab driver. i just subscribed and can't wait to go through the bad review playlist. :D
That younger girl who Regan helped was actually Dana Plato who later was on Different Strokes.
I know someone who got blown by Dana for crack. True story.
I still say that shot of her going down the stairs backwards is the creepiest thing
I can't believe they got poor James Earl Jones in this movie.
This channel deserves so many more subscribers, every video is hilarious and I'm glad I subscribed!
the Exorcist tame? no freaking way. that movie still scares me today.
I love how a cab crashes through a front gate, a fire starts and burns someone to death, and a townhouse collapses, and no one in this densely populated neighborhood seems to notice. If it happened in my neighborhood, there would be a bunch of people outside trying to figure out what is going on.
The Exorcist from 1973 is way more scary than most of the horror movies nowadays
The main problem is the P13 trend to attract teens in theaters. And add to that the fact that every (non scary)creepy pasta circulating on medias are the main theme and voila! You have the least scary horror films in existence.
I have nothing against movies that are aimed at a younger audience, but you need more to scare hardcore horror fans and very often the trailers for these things are very misleading for the kind of audience it's targeted at.
khaleesi k it is
I don't understand how it's scary. I watched it as a child too the first time. It's not very good.
@@jjwp-ql5rv It has a lot of things hiding under the surface in that film. Someone on RUclips has done a video about the film hints at Regan having been sexually abused, without making it blatantly obvious. So the Exorcist is as much about the harm done to her by people.
The film critic Mark Kermode rates it as one of his best films. While I don't entirely agree, I respect Kermode's opinion in other areas (unlike most critics) so he must see something in it.
@@jjwp-ql5rv you obviously didn't get it...
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Thanks Leo
Linda was a strikingly beautiful girl here.❤ Plot? Schmlot! I say.🤣
this guy is so underrated
5 years later, still agreed
@@seanpvs101moviesproduction3 Erod has terrible sound, buy a mic ffs
My Most Underrated User is ElectricDragon505
He definitely deserves more subs. He's one of the few that hasn't posted click-bait, nor does he have those obnoxious 'Raid: Shadow Legends' ads inserted into his vids. Edit: Nor does he ask every video for people to subscribe and vote. He's humble about it.
Like this movie.
The only reason why it was worth watching was Linda Blair in her a prime!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍
Why do so many bad films have good actors? Burton is one of the greats.
This has to be up there with one of the worst films with the best cast?
Paycheck. Also, sometimes a movie looks good in script form,but sucks on film
@@shugaroony I think so. Other horrific films I can think of with half decent casts include Caligula (which sunk many careers, or at least submerged Malcolm McDowell's for a while), the Devil within Her, 1941 by Spielberg... I guess I should probably give an honourable mention to Jan Michael Vincent, because while he was never that good of an actor, I loved Airwolf as a boy and he appeared in a string of bad films.
The British tax code at that time left iconic actors buried under taxes because they were financially on the line between middle class and wealthy. If they wanted even a semi-comfortable middle class lifestyle, they would have to take whatever decent-paying crap came their way. That's how Alec Guinness was roped into Star Wars and Laurence Olivier ended up in a Moonie cult film. Guinness was actually grateful for doing Star Wars because the royalties meant he wouldn't have to do any more films he didn't like.
@@newguy90 A lot of these people just went to live overseas. Connery ended up in Spain, a lot of others went to live in the Irish Republic for similar reasons.
😂😂 "she's part of the rebel Alliance, take her away!!" That was funny.
I've been watching horror movies since I was 9, and fifteen yars later, The Exorcist is one of the very few movies that still terrifies the shit out of me.
The sequel though... it makes me laugh.
Forgive me for my cinematic heresy, but...I actually LIKE Exorcist II The Heretic. It is wacky, often makes no sense, and at times it IS laughable. Yet, I found it to be enjoyable.
Ironically the fact that Pazuzu exists (no really, look it up) makes this even funnier.
They took a demon from actual mythology, made him terrifying, and then slowly diminished his supposed effectiveness by making the sequels crappier.
Define "exists" lol mythology specifically DOESN'T exist
and so what makes that ironic?? i dont see anything ironic at all about that.
@@Bigger-Than-Jesus It's like rain on your wedding day.
@@veteranredbeard6222 you're so smart. if you get any smarter you might not be stupid anymore.
She cured Dana Plato from different strokes.
I was a teen when this came out. I just remember Linda Blair was cute and how liberating it must be to walk around in see through nightgowns ll day in public.
The Vatican: You are out of line, father. Turn in your gun and badge!
*ＭＯＲ✝ＩＳ*
Look, she drew a picture of me with FIRE!
Word, he was more excited than disturbed that a strange child drew a picture of him like that. smh
"You are part of the rebel alliance.."
Fucking hilarious!
So many times people think they need to add to what is already a masterpiece. I don't get that. You can't just force creativity. It comes on spontaneously, yet all too often we try to force it. Ya can't force a flower to grow, you can't force yourself to go to sleep, and you can't force creativity.
This reminds me, why in the fuck are they making a fourth Toy Story?
They are?
Toy Story 5 now-
Toy story 4 was actually REALLY good
4:10 That was an actual place, and the crew had NO WAY to help Linda Blair if she fell.
I`ve been in the highrise glass business for almost 40 years. Sure back in the 70`s we`d install railings on skyscrapers with portions missing. That way kids, pets, the old or drunk would plummet to sidewalk below. Then, to protect people on the sidewalk, we'd sell the building owner sturdy glass canopies over the storefronts at street level.
Of course party-poopers made us stop leaving out portions of the railings on highrises, but we still, for fun, leave out the welds and bolts on one panel of every railing. If you lean too hard it'll snap off and you'll plummet to the sidewalk... sorry, sturdy glass canopy below.
"Hey! This railing is unsafe!"
"Then don't lean on it. Didn't you read your railing warranty?"
Linda blair was SO hot though
Dude she was like 17 you pervert!
Literally not a single attractive person in this movie...
Troy Baker in most islamic countries the age of consent is 9.
Allan's Snackbar!!
In all fairness, if people are going to call Bruce sick over this, then maybe they should realize she was literally dressed up in a nightie in one scene and seducing a grown man. They were doing their darnedest to make her "hot" for this movie.
OMG i forgot the psychiatrist in this was the evil Nurse Ratchet from 'Cuckoo's Nest'!
How the great John Boorman managed to make such a turkey is incredible to me. 'Point Blank' is a stone classic, and 'Excalibur' though it is undeniably odd, has a firm grip on its material and possesses real magic.
I saw this in a double bill with the original Exorcist film. My girlfriend spent most of the first film covering her eyes in fear and most of this film covering her mouth because she was laughing so much.
I am really glad this review exists. There are times I watch a movie, not like it, but feel like the world will hate me because I find fault with it. Exorcist 2 was one of those. I didn't understand the movie. It wasn't scary at all. It was just confusing. It was like some first year art students were asked to make their own version of the Exorcist. When I hear Mark talk about these movies I feel like I'm not alone anymore.
dumb.
I mean, it's a universally disliked film, and many fans of the original hate the sequel. Even the third film gets more love (and rightly so) than this rubbish.
So there never was any need to think you were alone with this. I was actually angry when I watched this film the first time, because it felt so insulting to the original Exorcist.
I can predict the future..done it many times and I will say this..you will be the ultimate movie producer/director in 10 years..you see thru all the bullshit and will make the best movie of 2030...buckle up and we will be looking for mistakes yet there will be none.
I saw it when I was 11 (exorcist) and I lost my shit. When she started floating and furniture started moving I was done!
By the time I saw part 2 I was in my teens and I was jaded by horror movies. So yeah I showed no interest. Especially after all the interviews I read and videos I watched.
Jazhua Vanboven lol
"Riding along with a locust, like on a scenic tour of Africa" don't know why that made me lol so much.
When my father saw the exorcist in the theater, he passed out. I guess from fear.
My dad saw the exorcist when it first came out and they almost kicked him out of the theater because he was laughing so hard. It is not even close to scary unless you have satanophobia or are easily scared in general.
Darth vadar part was epic xD
This movie makes total sense. You need to calm down with the medicine my fishtank doctor gave me...hold on, doctor, the RUclips's asking me to explain the movie I..hang on...
BRING BACK PRACTICAL EFFECTS!!!!!!!!!!! Also, have you noticed that the 80s and 90s are notorious for having TERRIBLE horror movie sequels. Like I know we have bad sequels now, but think about how many horror movies have had a ton of sequels that are largely considered bad. Jaws, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, Alien.
most of these franchises have sequels better than the original and did you quote Alien as having a bad sequel. I hope they reversed that lobotomy in the past 4 years.
Isn't Pazuzu the name of the Professor's gargoyle-like pet thing in Futurama?
🤣🤣 i think its just Zuzu haha
You should review the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 90s
Why
@@alan7life Why not?
I'm so old, I saw this in the theatre as a young person. Yup saw Exorcist in the theatre too. I was freaked out by the Exorcist, as was everyone in the theatre, and kind of like Ex. 2. BUT I LOVE the way Mark uses the James Earl Jones thing to go full Darth Vader, Way cool !!!
The exorcist is most scariest and terror inducing movie still to this day. It is no horror movie at all. It's a well written and interpreted story of unstoppable fear. Fear that shows itself to your face and terror that seeps into your imagination.
The original exorcist terrified me. But the sequel was a comedy. I laughed so hard during the movie...IMO it's a great comedy
S'ok. Linda Blair is always delightful.
I actually really like the Father Marrin Africa exorcism flashback scenes in this. Its got this weird, orange dreamlike vibe that works. It’s about the only part of the sequel that should’ve stayed cannon.
You’re doing a great job sarcasticly. That’s not even a word, but you’re great. Thank you
Thank god I've never seen this lol
***** Watch the first 30 minutes.
You missed NOTHING
It waa fucking retarded. I'd rather watch Exorcist III. Brad Dourif as a serial killer is bad ass.
Well, you kinda did watch it now. :P
"The Cab Driver...." L o L
Only great thing about Exorcist 2 Linda Blair is absolutely beautiful in it.
9:02 It's always funny to see street scenes in movies with a famous actor/actress and they did not use a closed set. Instead of all the people going about their regular business in the movie like they should you have a bunch of people staring at this "character" thinking, "Is that Linda Blair?"
The Heretic is not the worst movie sequel of all time. Yes its bad.In fact in terms of screenplay,its pretty much appalling. The trouble is that Mr Kermode rates the Exorcist as his all time favourite movie of all time. So I can quite understand his hatred of its first official sequel. So firstly I would like to point out why people dislike Exorcist II: The Heretic so much.
1)The screenplay is terrible.It really doesn't hold water. We are supposed to believe that Regan still has that demon Pazuzu trapped and suppressed inside her and the only way to uncover the truth is to use a hypnosis strobing machine so that another person can travel in to her subconscious and witness the events of father Merrins death in the first movie. Plus we find out the Regan can cure the sick ,see the future and draw scary pictures depicting forthcoming events that only father Lamont can decipher.
2)The acting.. Well its pretty much hilarious. Richard Burton made this movie when he was fighting his Alcohol addiction. Half the time, he seems to be reading all his lines off cue cards. This makes his performance both mesmerising and infuriating. Linda Blair fairs little better. She really hasn't got much to do and Like Burton she is saddled with terrible dialogue that keeps her character two dimensional though the entire film. This also applies to Louise Fletcher who had just won a deserved Oscar for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. In this movies she is forced to say the the most inane lines, with which she speaks with total indifference. Kitty Winn, James Earl Jones and Max Von Sydow fair only slightly better with Ned DELIVERANCE Beaty having a great cameo as the Pilot.
And finally
3)John Boorman. A great director who seems totally out of his depth with this material.The trouble is that Boorman has always been a straight story teller but the film storyline is so all over the place that no director could rain it in. The original worked because it presented its story in the most realistic way possible. Its almost scientific in its presentation of good verses evil leaving its meaning up to its audience. Boormans film is overly complex and as a result it becomes slightly pretentious.
So you may ask yourself, what is right with Exorcist II: The Heretic and why did I give it a 6 stars when most people have given it one or even none. Well. I think its is one of the most visually stunning movies ever made. I personally watch it for the visuals alone. Strangely Exorcist II: The Heretic is as film of many different palates and styles and although some say this is a weakness in my humble opinion it is one of its strengths. Also the films horror elements have a strange and eerie beauty to them. from the opening where the possessed women burns to death to the aerial demon riding the wind sequence with reminds me of those cinema virtual roller coasters. There are also tremendous visuals that utilise models, such as the climb to the cliff top Temple. Plus the African Locust attack. All these sequences have a dream like quality to them that is as good visually as anything we can do to day with computer graphics. I should also mention Ennio Morricones excellent score. Although it seems out of place in some sequences it is non the less powerful and works well with some of the visuals. To sum up.
As I have said before Exorcist II: The Heretic is not a good movie. But its isn't no where near as bad as certain critics would have you believe. Over the past 10 years I have seen many movies that I would class as a lot worse than Exorcist II: The Heretic.
I believe you should try watching Exorcist II: The Heretic. Or if you have already seen it and hated it. Try watching it again it may grow on you. It did on me. To me Exorcist II: The Heretic is like a Wedding video where someone has filmed you dancing like you dad or doing Karaoke. You know you shouldn't watch it, but some how you can't help yourself. Plus secretly you quite like it.
linda blair looks so good tho
....you needed a confirmation that you're not gay? and as a kid too? wow
@@Golemoid LOL dude was very conflicted as a child I guess...In my opinion if he needed confirmation then he is still gay or bisexual at the least
@@BrettonFerguson simp spotted.
Pazuzu is the king of the demons of the wind. Mortal enemy of the evil Lamashtu and other evil entities. So much, that he was a protector of the humans against plagues and misfortunes. And, specially, he was a protector of the mothers in childbirth. So yeah, they choose for this movie the only f*cking good demon to be the main antagonist.
All DEVILS ARE EVIL! WTF are you saying by implying there good?
The only thing that I'll ever remember from this is James Earl Jones dressed as a locust.
I am impressed you reviewed the original full house of crap that was Eexorcist 2 Heretic.
I reviewed it for my college paper when the wtf movie came out.
I pointed out that at the end when Burton and Linda Blair walk off, they are walking towards a drop of about a hundred feet or more, onto a gas station, my having visited the famous site.
The stairs down which Jason Miller's character fell in the original film are to the left of the screen, the house to the right; my friends and I parked down in the parking lot below, and climbed the stairs to the house.
You didn't show what my review included: Louis Fletcher after the car wreck, running about in circles with barbed wire or such in her side, calling for help in the silent street with all the urgency of calling a puppy to come indoors.
Great review! It was so panfuil to watch when I saw it in the theater (apart from Linda as Sexy Sultry Demon Regan).
I saw it when I was a kid (80's), I called it The Locust Movie
So exorcist 2 is essentially the last 2 hours of a bad acid trip
There is one positive about this movie: this review. Hilarious!
John Boorman going from directing the excellent Deliverance to directing Exorcist II: proof how far a director can fall (although he did rebound in '81 with Excalibur and again in '85 with the underrated The Emerald Forest).
Also, William Friedkin could only watch the first half hour of this. Can't believe he even made it THAT far.
This was a bad movie. But its one of those bad movies I really enjoyed. I love Exorcist 2. It was scary as hell to me when I was younger.
I kinda like it too lol
i can confirm that the excorcist scared the fuck out of me as a child! D:
Do Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
I love that movie, despite the robots . . .
Peter Gorman I watched that one in spite of my husband’s warnings about how awful it is... the song in the movie is awful... and I am pretty sure it contributed to my irrational fear of children...
Kokumo? Sounds like a Beach Boys song to me.
Exorcists1 and 3 are excellent, but for some reason I love Exorcist 2:) Thanks for review.
This needed a heavy rewrite. The script was shit. It reeks of too many people with different ideas trying to cram them all in. Needed to be more simple. I would have written a story where another kid, this time a teenager, is being possessed and the church feels like it might be the same demon so send the priest to interview Regan in the psychiatric hospital about her memories to find out if it's the same or a different one. In the finale, which would be similar to the ending of this(because the movie at least gets interesting in the finale), the Demon which turns out to be the more powerful demon Baal attempts to possess Reagan and seduce Burton's character. They succeed defeating the demon together, but Reagan dies at the end of the battle. I would have used that famous German case(which also inspired Emily Rose) where the girl died during the exorcism as the inspiration for the second film.
Trust me when I say that The Exorcist 3 is pretty awesome.
Linda Blair survived the Exorcist but was forever traumatized by the making of this movie.
The Exorcist is my all time favourite movie to this day it's still the scariest movie I've watched. Linda Blair is gorgeous!
@Carol Bogdanowitz What? They're remaking it? Aww man.. why can't they just leave well enough alone. They're running out of ideas so they have to recycle movies. 😭
@Carol Bogdanowitz Agreed!
It makes me wonder how this movie would have turned out had Friedkin and Blatty DID agree to do the sequel...
You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor, take her away! Love how you threw that in there
I found this channel over the weekend and have now binge watched about 50 or 60 of these.....
This looks like it takes all the scariness away from the first. 😄
I'm so happy I found your channel dude.
How drunk was Richard Burton?
Can't agree this time. I enjoyed the sequel more than the original.
Mark, when you said the phrase, "evil Reagan," it reminded me of the 80s.
+Shade Draws Did you have to immediately go there? He made a bad joke (arguably), but you end up looking worse automatically.
Shut up
He kept mispronouncing it is though.
"Rag-in"
11:44 “you are part of the rebel alliance...”. I think I peed my pants!
I like this movie. It's stupid and silly but taken at that value, it can be enjoyable. Would love to hear your thoughts on The Neverending Story 2. 3 is an obvious answer, but 2 is pretty enjoyable IMO.
That picture she drew of Father Lamont was awesome, I want it.
This was still better than Anchorman 2 and Grown Ups 2 combined.
The main thing that was scary in "The Exorcist ll" was Louise Fletcher. It's like she has no idea or talent to play in anything else but psychotic or horror films!
The best thing in the movie was, of course, Linda Blair!
Good job fellow Canadian.
I love your channel. You make me laugh to bits!
I might see "The Exorcist II" to find out if it is as bad as people say it is.
It's not that bad